The Declaration of Independence

Question 1

Which of the following was a result of the Tea Act of 1773?

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Colonial merchants could not sell their tea for less than the British East India Company.

Question 2

A reason that the Intolerable Acts of 1774 angered colonists was that they

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restricted town meetings in Massachusetts.

Question 3

Why did the Tea Act of 1773 anger colonists?

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It favored a British company over merchants.

Question 4

Colonists were angered by the Stamp Act of 1765 because they

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did not have representation in Parliament.

Question 5

Which of the following ideas did the Declaration of Independence borrow from the Mayflower Compact?

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The government should be for the common good.

Question 6

Parliament raised taxes on the American colonies in the 1760s because

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Britain was in debt from the French and Indian War.

Question 7

An Enlightenment idea that influenced the Declaration of Independence was that a social contract

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states the rights of rulers and citizens.

Question 8

Colonists were angered by a restriction in the Intolerable Acts that required them to

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feed and house British soldiers.

Question 9

When the Continental Congress first voted on the Declaration of Independence, it

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received 9 of 12 possible votes.

Question 10

In 1774, the First Continental Congress suggested that colonists boycott British goods to protest

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the Intolerable Acts.

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